Queer = Psychic? Consider the possibilities...

[icymist]

by Scott Stiffler
EDGE Contributor
Monday Oct 26, 2009

Despite all the earthly, flesh-based pleasures technology has brought us (Gaytube, Manhunt and fleshlights), life as an out gay man in 2009 can still be rough sailing.

How is it that forty years after Stonewall (and several years after the last "Will & Grace" episode), our sexual identity still makes us targets for discrimination and marginalization? What a world it would be if the sensitive nature of the queerness was seen as a highly valued trait which gave us entry into the hidden realm of spirituality and magic.

You can have that life, of course; but to claim it, you’ll need a time machine. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear - when the tribe elevated homosexuals to the high-status position of shaman instead driving them into the closet with witch hunts.
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[sui generis]

1. Yeh - most of us have a higher emo IQ

Useful for perceiving cognitive abstracts such as someone else's state of mind, from minimal cues.

Downside is: we learn there are a lot of people out there who are merely posing as humans, and that can be pretty depressing if that's what you're surrounded by.

It's also chicken vs. egg. Does realizing you are socially different make you grow the neural structures to be "sensitive" or does being "sensitive" make you realize how different you are?

:shrug: